1. The UN warns that the besieged Gaza Strip, which has experienced several Israeli aggression, could become uninhabitable by 2020.
2. Saudi Arabia’s fresh bombing of several regions across impoverished Yemen leaves nearly thirty people dead and many more injured amid international silence.
3. Russia says the anti-terrorism fight in Syria can become efficient only if calls for the ouster of the country’s legitimate president Bashar al-Assad are withdrawn.
4. More US senators support the conclusion of the nuclear talks with Iran. Now only one vote is needed to sustain President Obama’s veto on any rejection of the deal.
5. Lebanese security forces clash with protesters who’d stormed the Environment Ministry building in Beirut; there are reports several people have been injured.